The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-13

Hon. THOMAS e. POWELL has made hia
opening speech in the Ohio campaign 1t was
a strong and dignitied presentation of the dentS
ocratic case. The Ohio democrats have good
candidate. They ought to go to work and
elect him.
THE CITY COUNCIL of Richmond has refused
to appropriate SIS, 900 to help defray the exs
penses of the dedication of the Lee monument,
Richmond will raise the amount and as much
more as is necessary, without regard to the
council. Richmond is good deal bigger conf
Germ than its city council.
MEN RISE RAPIDLY in this country. Ska
teen years ago William Nj. Singerly was selIy
ing peanuts in Chicago. Now he is the propris
etor of the Philadelphia Record and owns d
superb yacht. Mr.. Singerly will be Telnems
bered as the gentleman who tried to run tho
recent Pennsylvania democratic convention.
JOHNNY MCLEAN is said to be worth $5.O0O,S
0E0. he proposes to put some OF ii into tho
baseball business at Washington. Mcl4eam
lives in Washington about as much as lie doeg
in Cincinnati. One of his dreams is to be q
United States senator from Ohio. John haS
meyer been bashful fellow.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE, of Missouri cane
not. under the constitution of that state, be a
candidate for reelection. There is no lack Of
gentlemen however, who are willing to take
the office. Among the probable candidates ARD
Coneressmen Clardv and Burnes, and David
L. Francis the rich and handsome Young
mayor OF st. Louis
A LOUISIANA JUDGE has enjoined the AS.
cenSion Democrat against supporting General
Nichols for governor, on the ground that the
charter of the paper stipulates that it shall be-
democratic in politics." This judge may be a:
very wise man but our recollection is that Gems
eral Nichols was a democrat at time when
democrats were badly needed in Louisiana. IL
he has changed his politics since that time We
are not aware OF 1t.
Tn, f1,o
house, Carlisle is to be speaker, Mills chair4
man Of the ways and means committee. and
Bill Scott ''the most important member on
the floor" Imagine Bill Scott in that posi$
lion lie was in the last congress and his only
reputation then was that he had thirty nils
lion dollars. Scott, as great parliamentary
leader, Will be the most astounding revelation
in our history. Then all the people may be
pardoned for eXclaiming Great Scott."-<
but not till then.
THE FIFTEEN GREAT American inventions OF
worldwide adoption are: l, the cotton gin; 2s
the planting machine; g. the grass mower and
reaper; !, the rotary printing press; 5, navigaE
ton by steam; 6, the hOt-air engine; Z. the
sewing machine; s, the india-rubber industry i
9, the machine manufacture of horse shoes
10, the sand-blast for carving; II, the gauge
lathe; II, the grain elevator; 49, artificial iceq
making on a large scale Ia, the ELECTRIC
magnet and its practical application; and, 15i
the telephone.
The reports of John Rusl1in's failing mind
have revived the story of how Millais used
to visit Ruszin and his wife as dear friend /;
how he took Mrs. Ruskin as the original of tho
sad, clinging sweetheart in his famous picture
of The Huguenot Lovers" how the panteB
and his friends wife fell in love with each
other, and how John Ruskin gave her up I'd
Millais and said he hoped they would be very
happy together. In the opinion Of most people
Ruskins insanity is at least as old as this res
markable action.
GOVERNOR LEE, OF VIRGINIA, smokes an inc
mense red clay pipe which General Sibley of Sts
Paul gave him. The pipe is thus described
"The pipe was made by Isla-Du-Ta, or Red
Eye of the Sisseton Hand, a one-armed brave
OF the Dakota Indians, from the red Pipe
quarry, celebrated by LongfelloW in his Hlaa
watha.' Presented to Governor Fitzhugh Lee
OF Virginia while in Minnesota, January 26s
1887, by Wah-Ze-Oni-Ini, or Walker in tho
Pines, " this being the Indian name of General
Sibley.
Mr.. MILLS, OF Texas, does not appear to
| have the solid support Of his own state 1or The
Craftsmanship Of the ways and means commita
tee. The Austin Dispatch says: "The den1s
ocratS OF the next house should unite in q yigf
OrOus protest to the speaker against The apl
poinunent Of that blatant free trade howlerl
Dodger Q. Mills, to the important position
| OF chairman Of the committee of ways and
means. It's safe to say, however, that youT
| Uncle Sammy Randall will have q word OF
| two to say in the matter"
GOVERNOR FORAKER has played the dema,
gogue so long that he forgets the ordinary de,
cencies Of every occasion which affords him
an opportunity to assume the role of political
blatherskite. Last Thursday night he was g
! guest of the city of Wheeling, a democratic
CITY, and city full of southern people. Yet
he made speech full of sectional hate il,
which he said the south was "damnably
wrong" i'll the war. How splendid are the
| patriotic words of Governor Wilson beside
! such vile stuff! II have been asked by some
| one at my SIDE" said Governor Wilson
whether the confederates were traitors. In
reply [ have only to say the man who asks that
| question at this day and on this occasion is
| lacking in patriotism and is inspired by the
same sentiments that once moved for the de-
| struction of this union. He is the man who
would keep sectionalism alive and fatten or
sectional hate. [Cheers.l The day is past
country is graudly united. Let it remain Sc